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S. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort   versione testuale



At the beginning of the twenty-fifth year of his pontificate, on October 16, 2002, Pope John Paul II proclaimed a «Year of the Rosary» and signed the Apostolic Letter Rosarium Virginis Mariæ (RV). «The Rosary of the Virgin Mary... is a prayer loved by countless saints and encouraged by the Magisterium. Simple yet profound, it still remains, at the dawn of this third millennium, a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness... It would be impossible to name all the many saints who discovered in the Rosary a genuine path to growth in holiness. We need but mention Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, the author of an excellent work on the Rosary» (John Paul II, RV, nos. 1, 8).
Louis Grignion was born in Montfort-la-Cane, in Brittany, on January 31, 1673. He was baptized the day after he was born. The day of his confirmation, he added the name «Marie» to his first name. Sent to nurse with a farmer's wife in the surrounding area, the child retained from this experience a love of nature and solitude. 

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